A Bay Shore man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for commercially sexually exploiting multiple female victims, including a 13-year-old child.
In early 2023, Danny St. Louis met a 13-year-old child through a mutual acquaintance and provided her with cocaine. He began to communicate with the child regularly and then sexually abused her on three separate occasions. During that time, St. Louis introduced the child to crack cocaine, causing her to become addicted to the drug. The abuse continued until October 8, 2023, when the police found the victim in a hotel room with St. Louis after she had run away from a residential drug treatment facility.
In addition, between March 2023 and March 2024, St. Louis acted with the intent to advance or profit from the prostitution of two additional victims and did so by unlawfully providing them with drugs as a method of maintaining control over them.
On March 3, 2024, St. Louis arranged to have a fourth victim, a 20-year-old woman, meet him at a hotel in Hauppauge where he was staying. St. Louis then provided that woman with crack cocaine and stayed with the victim in the hotel room for two days, prompting her family to file a missing persons report with authorities. At one point, St. Louis accused the victim of stealing crack cocaine from him and forced her to undress, shower, and then have sex with him to repay her supposed debt. The sexual conduct was filmed, and St. Louis discussed a plan to use the video as an advertisement to sell the victim to sex buyers. On March 5, 2024, the victim had an opportunity to get away from St. Louis and fled the hotel to call her family.
On March 14, 2024, St. Louis was arrested after he agreed to provide a buyer with sex from one of the trafficked victims, and drugs, in exchange for money.
On May 21, 2026, St. Louis pleaded guilty to the following charges before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei:
- three counts of Rape in the Second Degree, Class B violent felonies
- two counts of Sex Trafficking, Class B felonies
- one count of Attempted Sex Trafficking, a Class C felony
On June 23, 2026, St. Louis was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision, and he must register as a sex offender.
“If you prey on vulnerable women and children in Suffolk County, you will be investigated, prosecuted, and held accountable,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “This defendant will now spend many years in prison, unable to harm another victim. I thank our law enforcement partners and the prosecutors in our human trafficking unit who work collaboratively to prosecute traffickers in Suffolk County.”